New Competition for Law Firms on the Rise
10/27/2010 Some say the legal industry is now falling apart. Primarily due to the fact that the industry is moving away from the conventional provider of legal services, which are the law firms, to newer and more fragmented type of service platform. Aside from LPOs (legal process outsourcing), there are other non-law firms that provide […]
58 Congressional Candidates Back Poker Players Alliance
10/27/2010 58 Congressional candidates promoting gambling interests are supported by the Poker Players Alliance or PPA. One of those that they are supporting is Barney Frank. He, along with several others, have been working tirelessly just to promote the interest of gamblers in the country. In fact, PPA has already released the names of the […]
UnitedLex’s Strengthens E-Discovery Service Solution Using Basis Technology
10/27/2010 UnitedLex, a leader in providing legal and business solutions, has included the Rosette Language Identifier in its e-discovery solution, eMergence. Rosette is one of the products of Basis Technology, a known provider of software solutions for text analysis and information retrieval. Rosette would scan thousands of documents within eMergence and would be detecting the […]
Find Legal Help From a Drive Thru Window
10/27/2010 It cannot be denied that with the fast-paced society today, drive thru windows have been offering the utmost convenience. In fact, you can find a certain law firm in Connecticut that has been utilizing a drive-thru window to conduct their daily operations. Kocian Law Group, has recently opened for business at a renovated building, […]
US Elections to Decide the Fate of Online Gambling
10/27/2010 At current time, there is only a little news on the legalization of online gambling in the U.S. This can be attributed to the fact that everybody is preoccupied with the coming mid-term elections on November 2. Whether proposed online gambling regulations and legalization will come to a naught or not, would all depend […]
Recession Might Actually Create Changes in the Legal Industry
10/22/2010 Fifty percent of US lawyers say that the recession will permanently affect how things are usually done in the legal industry. Roughly half of the 50% said that more alternative fee arrangements or AFAs will be used. A quarter of the said group believed that cost controls would still be practiced even if the […]
More Tech-Savvy Lawyers are Incorporating Social Media in Conducting their Business
10/22/2010 Twitter has ceased to become a mode of communication and networking enjoyed by teens, students, and young professionals alone. It has also become one of the best venues for dissipating and acquiring information among in-house counsels and other legal advisers. According to Melanie Hatton, Latitude Digital Marketing’s legal department head, she used Twitter to […]
Stalwarts in Legal Research Industry are Joining Bloomberg Law
10/21/2010 New York – Two stalwarts in the legal research industry joined Bloomberg Law, a real time legal research system. Lou Andreozzi shall be the Chairman of Bloomberg Law, while Larry D. Thompson, PhD, shall be the chief operating officer. They will play significant roles in further expanding the potentials of Bloomberg Law. Looking at […]
Corporations are Strengthening Their Law Departments
10/21/2010 According to the 2010 Chief Legal Officer Survey conducted by legal industry consultant Altman Weil based in Newton Square, corporations are now strengthening their law departments as evidenced by increased internal budgets and hiring more paralegals and lawyers for the said departments. They are also minimizing giving recourse to outside counsel. Out of the […]
Venture for a Legal P2P Fails
10/19/2010 An attempt to make music file sharing as legal has stumbled. Choruss, the project’s name, has failed to successfully legalize music file sharing in colleges and homes. As its founder, Jim Griffin, puts it, “I blew it.” Choruss had its humble beginnings as a project in Warner Music. The project would make file sharing […]